How much does it cost to adopt a child from foster care?

Question

Assuming the child is available. My husband and I are looking for a school age child (5-10 yrs old)

Answer 1

About $3,000-4,000.oo depending on your state and attorney fees. I have done alot of research. It is about $3000 here in Texas

Answer 2

Here where we live if you adopt in the foster system its free. Just court costs and such....not nearly the cost if you were to adopt internationally or anything.

Answer 3

Nothing / Zilch / Zip / Nadda!  Bless you for wanting an older child.  There are not many of us out there.  Foster children are wards of the state and depending on the state you live in and the issues (RAD / ADD / Age..)etc will determine the stipened (sp) you recieve from the state.  Don't jump up and down thinking that this will help a whole lot, it just depends.  The state that I live in we are the most underpaid.  We get 200 per month for an infant.  Doesn't cover diapers / food / milk etc.  But it is worth it to see his little cheesy grin every morning.  I can't understand why there aren't many more of you.  Yeah, it would be great to have adopted an infant but I could NEVER give up the one that we have (not final yet).  He is MY WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 4

Nothing!!! They will help you with all of it.  We adopted through foster care.  They pay for everything for the kid and you..If you have any questions you can e-mail me at.  [e-mail]

Answer 5

I always read about the costs involved in adoption in foster care... But they are talking about what it costs the state not you!! The people who responded are correct.  It doesn't cost you a dime!!  Unless you want to have your attorney not the one that is court/state appointed.

Answer 6

I have adopted 5 from the foster care system and it did not cost us anything. If you are at all considering adoption through the state you live in then please contact your local Department of Human Services for more information. There is alot of information that they can give you like classes you will need to take and a homestudy that will need to be done.

My husband and I were married 18 years and no chilren and then we decided to try foster parenting and are now living a busy but rewarding life with our children. We got them approx. 3 months apart, ages boys were 5 months, 18 months and 2 and the two girls were 3 years old. They are now, girls are 11 and boys are 10,9 and 8. Good luck! Adoption is an option-it was the perfect choice for us...

Answer 7

I live in Texas and Cookiemonster is right on target.  It cost us just about $3000 four years ago.  The state had paid for the home study when we first received our little girl for fostering and the court accepted it for the adoption, or that would have added about $500 more to the cost.

Answer 8

God bless your soul! I would very much like to do this too. My husband understandably would like to wait until our children are older. (Our oldest is 2).

I live in Washington state and it is free here. The people are so helpful too! You'll have to take some classes to become a foster parent and have the home study done. But they are quite eager to help you give a home to an older child.

Have you seen this site? http://www.nwae.org/wait-wa.html

Of course there are many more kids, but these are some of the ones they really want to be placed soon. Some kids in Washington are on it. I might wait until you move because they might want to be sure you have stability, not sure though.

Here's the DSHS page for Washington which will get you all the info you need: http://www1.dshs.wa.gov/ca/adopt/index.a...

Answer 9

my parents have adopted 7 children out of foster care.  There is no cost to doing it, but usually you need to be a foster parent first.  My parents had each of the children in foster care for at least a year before the child became eligible for adoption. With you looking to get children who are older, you probably won't have much trouble getting someone.  There are SO many children in need of a loving stable home and the older children are usually pretty low on the list for people wanting to adopt them, so good for you both and best of luck!!!